Caught In The Web
evawhite on August 6th, 2008
The seeping in of web 2.0 makes one look back at the advent of computing. Of the many changes brought, the best undoubtedly has been bridging distance, i.e. world wide web. An apt term. The internet truly has worked wonders. Access to people and knowledge in a way unprecedented before. Arguably, there has been nothing like it since time past and only anything of the supernatural can eclipse this some future point. There really is no question that it has irrevocably changed how we lead our lives.
People who have been using the internet for years now already know this. No internet no life. It is quite true. Getting on the internet is both the first thing and last thing people do in a productive day. I know I cannot do without it. It’s enormously like falling out of reception on your cell phone. Just won’t do. The PC has become a source of everything: Work, play, leisure, music, banking, research, movie making, watching and a whole lot more. It will I think in some form soon replace television as we know it.
As we just saw, with almost every conceivable activity now being done through this mammoth network which is both local and but yet world-wide at the same time. When a few years ago I was telling some people that even impoverished people will go to cyber-centres with a website address on a slip of paper to get work done; naturally, people laughed. But it is happening today, look around you. The web has truly ‘webbed’ us all.
Many people say that after first wave ‘IT’ revolution in the ‘90’s the second wave IT web revolution is happening now with web 2.0. Under-utilisation of the complete potential is as much fact as existence of the web itself. I ask you, how many of you use the internet to pay your bills. Or embraced the digital home? Complete with talking fridge and all… Quite possibly, many people are unaware of the full potential they can extract from the web.
Web 2.0 aims at doing exactly that. What is web 2.0? It’s pretty much the same thing in working, only a lot more human friendly. Why I say human friendly is because the interactions and intelligence weaved in makes contact a lot less daunting and personalises the ‘web’ experience to individual users. Just so people use it more. Similar to real life, you spend more time with someone friendly than an arrogant person. Web 2.0 hopes to be your best friend, man-Friday, etc … (if it isn’t already).
For those who didn’t know, many call centres are automated systems, no nice girl on the other end. If the computer is unable to help then you get directed to a ‘real’ person. A web 2.0 function. The era of the internet is today, seek out what all it can do for you and make full use of it… Since there really is no escape from it now…
November 3rd, 2008 at 2:52
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